Family and Social Change - The Household As a Process in an Industrializing Community

Klappentext An innovative study examining the effects of nineteenth-century industrialisation on family life. Zusammenfassung This book examines the effects of nineteenth-century industrialisation on family life! based on the Dutch experience. Dr Janssens uses a quantitative approach and her subsequent critical analysis confidently revises traditionally dominant theories. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Family and industrialisation; 2. The industrialising context: continuity and change in nineteenth-century Tilburg; 3. Sources and methods; 4. Family structure through time; 5. Family life and social structure; 6. Family structure and geographical mobility; 7. Family and work: the effect of family economy on the structural characteristics of the household; 8. Summary and conclusions.

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• Authors: Angelique Janssens, Angelique (Universiteit Utrecht Janssens
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.1993
• EAN: 9780521416115
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41611-5
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Cambridge Soviet Paperbacks
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history